Watch holder



Dec. 19, 1922.

A. MILNE.

WATCH-HOLDER.

FILED JAN.3I, 1921.

Patented Dec. 19, 1922.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER MI LNE, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO NEWARK WATCH CASE MATERIALS COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

WATCH HOLDER.

Application filed January 31, 1921.

10 and particularly to that class in which they are formed of sheet metal and designed to hold a watch in position either upon a supporting surface, such as the dashboard of an automobile, or to maintain thewatch in a 15 slightly tilted. position, as upon a desk.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved watch holder or supporting device which is simple in construction and arrangement, ma be economically manufac- 20 tured, and so esigned that the watch may be easily and quickly removed from the holder, either for the purpose of convenience in winding or setting, or for the insertion of a new watch.

While the holder is particularly adapted for the support or holding of the popular grade of watch (formerly known as the dollar watch) it will be readily appreciated that it is adapted to hold any style 30or type of watch.

A further object is to provide a watch holder formed of two sections which when,

brought together form a watch receptacle and to provide an eflicient clamping device for holding the sections together; thus allowing a watch to be easily and readily inserted in the holder or removed therefrom, and to further provide means whereby the two sections are positively locked in asp sembled positions, and thus prevent the theft of the watch. I

With the foregoing and other objects in view, my invention consists in the improved watch holding device illustratedin the accompanying drawing and hereinafter described and claimed, and in such variations and modifications thereof as will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which my invention relates.

In the drawing accompanying and forming a part of this specification and wherein the preferred embodiment of my invention is illustrated:

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of my improved watch holder designed and con- Serial No. 441,129.

structed for holding a watch upon a, desk or other horizontal surface;

Figure 2 is a view in vertical section taken on the line i l of Figure 1;

Figures 3 and i are front and rear views respectively of the above-mentioned holder;

Figure 5 is a View in front elevation of a watch holder particularly designed for holding and displaying a watch upon a vertical surface, such as the dashboard of an automobile, the holder being provided with additional means for holding the sections together;

Figure 6 is a view in section taken on the line 6-6 of Figure 5;

Figure 7 is a detail view in section showing the manner in which the clamp is adapted dtlo hold the sections in assembled position; an

Figure 8 is a detail view in section showing the manner in which the sections may be positively locked in assembled position.

Referring specifically to the several. views, wherein similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout, the holder as constructed in Figures 1 to 4 inclusive, is formed with the front section 10 and the rear section 11. The front section includes the bezel-engaging ring 12, and the rear section the back plate 13, the two being so curved and proportioned, that when the sections are assembled a watch-receiving receptacle 14 is formed. The front and rear sections are provided with the openings '15, providing for the passage of the stem of the watch therethrough, whereby the watch is held from turning and due provision is made for its winding. The front and rear sections also include the rearwardly extending supporting or spacing walls 1617, which are preferably conical shape in outline and which are adapted to nest one within the other.

In order to secure the front and rear sections of the holder together, and in order to provide a suitable support for the holder, each section is provided with a downwardly extending flange 1819, and a clamp 20 is pivotally secured to one of the flanges and is formed with the spaced walls 21-22, adapted when in closed position to embrace the flanges 18-19 therebetween and thus hold the sections in assembled position.

In order that the clamp may be easily moved into its locked position or displaced therefrom, the rear wall 2i is preferably provided with the thumb projection 26, thus rendering the removal or insertion of the watch conveniently possible.

The flanges and clamp are preferably so shaped as to rest. flat upon a supporting surface, such as the top of a desk, and in order to maintain the watch in an upright though slightly inclined position, a rearwardly ei; tending leg 28 is provided which hingedly secured at its upper extremitw 2!- to the rear section of the watch holder and is provided with the protruding lugwhich limits the hinged movement thereof. Thus when the holder is not in use or whenever desired the leg; may be closed against the rear section of the holder.

The somewhat modified form of holder illustrated in Figures 5 to S inclusive is de signed and arranged for permanent secure ment to a supporting surface, such as the dashboard of an automobile, and to this end the front and rear sections 1()ll are provided with the outwardly extending annular flanges 18-19, suitable clamps 20 being hinged toone end. of the flanges and are composed of the spaced walls 212"2. The clamps are also provided with the thumb projections 26", whereby they may be conveniently operated. ln this connection, it is to be noted that the rear spaced wall 22 of the clamp is of such length that when the clamp is rotated to its outer position, as illustrated in Figure 6, the rear wall is moved beyond the flange 19 of the watch holder and thus releases the two sections and allows them to be moved apart.

The flange 19 of the rear section is provided with the openings {)0 evteiulinp,- therethrough and adapted to receive the holding screws or fastening members ill. The flange 18 of the front section is n'ovided with corresponding o 'ienings 32, somewhat larger, however, than the openin 's 2-30, so as to ro ceive the heads 33 of the fastening members therethrough, whereby the fastening members 31 do not in any Way interfere with the assembling or removal of the front section, the clamps 20 alone holding the sections together.

In some instances it has been found de sirable to positively lock the front and rear sections of watch holder together and thus prevent the theft of the watch, andto this end l have provided the rear section with additional openings 34, more clearly illusinsenee trated in Figure 8, and the flange of the front section with the non-circular holes or openings 35. A holding bolt 36 extends through the support 3?, thro gh the opening 8i in the fhinge of the rear section, and is provided with a non-circular head 38 which, when aligning with the non-circular opening of the front flange, is adapted to pass therethrough. A suitable nut or nuts 39 are adapted to hold the bolt in place and prevent its rotation. l i ith the parts as thus constructed, when it is desired to remove the watch from the holder. the nuts 39 are first loosened, allowing the head 38 to be rotated into aligi'inient with the open ing 35 of the front flange, allowing the front section to be removed after the clamps 20 have been rotated or turned into their unlocked position. After a new watch has been inserted in the holder and the front section replaced, the holding" bolt is again rotated, causing the head to positively engage the flange of the front section and thus lock the sections together, so that with the nuts 89 tightened in place it will be practically impossible for the watch to be stolen from the holder.

Having thus described and explained my invention, ll claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A watch holder comprising front and rear sections having adjacent parts shaped to form a watch-receiving receptacle, said front and rear sections provided with outwardly extendingflalnges, a clamp pivotally engaging one of the flanges and adapted to rotate into engagement with the, other of the flanges and hold the two locked together, the flange of the rear sectionprovided with openings extending therethroiurh, holding bolts extending through said openings, and

the flange of the frontsection provided with openings adapted to align with the openings of the rear section, with several of the openings of the front section of non-circular outline and adapted to be engaged by the head of the holding bolts which eiitend therethrough.

Signed at New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 27th day of January, A. D. 1921.

ALEXANDER MILNE.

llfitnesses i Brennan it. ULnaafr, ANNE V. WALSH, 

